3196.-Blind Watchmen

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

3196.—Blind Watchmen

Please explain Isa. 56:10, "His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they can not bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." L. H.

Reading the prophecy and the context it will be seen that it refers to the last days when God's "salvation is near to come" and His "righteousness to be revealed." Verse 1. Compare Luke 21:28; Ps. 50:1-6. At that time surely His watchmen ought to be awake. They not only ought to be awake, but they ought to give warning of evils to come. Like the faithful watch-dog, they ought to bark and rouse the master if the foe is near. The meaning of the scripture is that they are faithless to their trust; they are not giving warning of the times in which God's people are living. They are not seeing, themselves, the conditions which the Lord has portrayed. Being blind, they are ignorant; being ignorant, they do not give warning.